So there’s this guy at our place with a Segway. You know, the dorky pogo stick with wheels that middle age yuppies and mall cops think are really cool. Well, this guy thinks it’s real cool. And he’s fucking creepy about it. I first heard about CSG one saturday morning when Emily came into the [...]
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On the subject of the the following article, Full Text (via Huffington Post) I often think I could have been a lawyer or a politician. I think a lot of this generations bright and well meaning potential politicians have been scared off by how much BS and red tape there is in the way of [...]
So I’ve been away from blog-land for a while. I recently migrated my main server for iggdawg.com from FreeBSD to Ubuntu, mostly due to lack of CUDA support on FreeBSD. The details aren’t important, and you probably aren’t here to listen to techno-babble. Unfortunately during the move, a Bad Thing happened and I managed to [...]
I thought this was good enough to repost. Alt-text reproduced faithfully. Ref: http://xkcd.com/712/
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to [...]
…But happy early V-Day from the random awesomeness that is the internet. I don’t usually make “hey check out this pic” posts, but this one is kind of a gem. And it’s almost seasonal. Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
“A Polish newspaper mistakenly identified “Pedobear”, a notorious internet meme, as one of the mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. … It appears that the newspaper lifted the picture from Google Images, unaware that it had been created as a prank by Michael Barrick, a Canadian artist and graphic designer. “ Full Article: [...]
Woot.com shirt of the day today. So pissed it sold out before I saw it
So this little diddy popped up on Digg today (and I’m sure slashdot). It basically makes you a “super control panel” where you can tweek all your settings and set up / configure anything all from one nice neat place. It’s “meant” for Windows 7, but works just fine on Vista 32 bit. Apparently it [...]
I posted the following entry in my LJ blog back in 2004 (before it was the haven of emo ranting that it’s become). Normally I don’t like to recycle material, but this may become an annual post since it never seems to become any less true. I love snow… but like many things in life, [...]
